U.S. Women's Open

The U.S. Women's Open is one of the national golf championships conducted by the United States Golf Association and the oldest of the five major championships of the LPGA Tour, alongside the Chevron Championship, the Women's PGA Championship, the Women's Open Championship and The Evian Championship. It was established in 1946 and is the only event the LPGA has recognised as a major since the organisation was founded in 1950. The Women's Professional Golfers Association ran it for its first three years and the LPGA for the next four, and it became a USGA event in 1953. Since 2018 it has normally been held the week after Memorial Day, before its men's counterpart, and it carries the largest purse in women's golf, raised to $10 million in 2022. In 2008 Inbee Park became its youngest winner, a record Yuka Saso matched in 2021.